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Why Assange Extradition Case Matters to Our Democracy original.antiwar.com/Nozomi_Hayase/… @Antiwarcom #FreeAssange #WikiLeaks
@Antiwarcom 1. What is this prosecution of Julian Assange really about? #WikiLeaks has radically changed the media landscape. By publishing truthful information about the United States, the organization came head-to-head with the Pentagon and the CIA. #FreeAssange
@Antiwarcom 2. Yet,effectiveness of his fearless journalism is not the only reason Assange became a political prisoner, being designated as an enemy of the state. He has been psychologically tortured inside Belmarsh prison, once known as the UK’s Guantanamo Bay. #FreeAssange
@Antiwarcom 3. With #WikiLeaks as a project of free software, Assange brought love to the Internet that could transform it into becoming a powerful tool for democracy. This love shared among the youth who grew up on the Internet fueled acts of civil disobedience. #FreeAssange
@Antiwarcom 4. From Chelsea Manning, to Jeremy Hammond, to Edward Snowden, waves of whistleblowers created an insurgency of contagious courage. People inside the institutions who want change, came forward to defy the unjust laws in order to uphold the high ideals. #FreeAssange #FreeManning
@Antiwarcom 5. With the creation of #WikiLeaks, Assange launched an open platform of democracy, creating a network that seeks to understand flaws, collaborates to amend them, and invites all to participate in envisioning a new society. #FreeAssange
@Antiwarcom 6. With this grand experiment of democracy that has now gone viral around the globe, what did Assange, who has won numerous awards for journalism, try to do? #FreeAssange
@Antiwarcom 7. Assange came to see how ordinary people are made passive; being tossed around and excluded from vital decision-making processes. He decided to side with those who are oppressed, wanting to help people recognize their own significance. #FreeAssange
@Antiwarcom 8. While being held in solitary confinement in a maximum high security prison in London, Assange was awarded the 2019 Dignity Prize for his support of the Catalan peoples’ struggle for independence and their fight against Spanish police brutality. #FreeAssange
@Antiwarcom 9. Assange sacrificed his liberty so that we could all be free. By releasing documents, #WikiLeaks set a frozen history in motion. History is now happening, and Assange’s plight for freedom is our story, where each person has a significant role to play. #FreeAssange #FreeManning
@Antiwarcom 10. Only through each of us choosing freely to respond to this love for the world that #Assange has demonstrated, may we be able to claim our democracy and our history - and together to end this egregious miscarriage of justice. #FreeAssange #FreeManning #WikiLeaks
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